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02170aam a2200373 i 4500 001 5C6DD244A92111E99DC7973297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190718010033 007 n 008 180815s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0806538961 020 $a 9780806538969 035 $a (OCoLC)1048442366 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a George, R. C.,. 245 1 $a Lightning sky : $b a U.S. fighter pilot captured during WWII and his father's quest to find him / $c R. C. George ; foreword by Marcus Brotherton. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp, $c [2019] 300 $a xiv, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a A U.S. fighter pilot captured by the enemy. A father determined to rescue his son. One of the most remarkable and moving true stories of faith and perseverance to come out of World War II. On October 6, 1944, twenty-year-old Army Air Corps Second Lieutenant David "Mac" Warren MacArthur was on a strafing mission over Greece when his P-38 Lightning was struck over the Adriatic Sea. Catptured by the Germans, he spent the duration of the war shuttled from camp to camp. Meanwhile, his father, Lieutenant Colonel Vaughn MacArthur, a chaplain with the 8th Armored Division of Patton's Third Army, never stopped searching for his son. In May, 1945 he finally found him at Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany--Adapted from jacket flap. 541 $d 20190515. 600 1 $a MacArthur, David Warren. 600 1 $a MacArthur, Vaughn. 610 2 $a Stalag VII A. 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 $a Prisoners of war $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Military chaplains $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Air pilots, Military $z United States $v Biography. 650 1 $a Fathers and sons $z United States $v Biography. 650 4 $a WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 $x Personal narratives, American. 650 7 $a Nonfiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190824012650.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20190718010349.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5C6DD244A92111E99DC7973297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search